Posted By J Knight This has really got me thinking actually. My initial thoughts were on the lines of 'riding bikes at work should already be covered by PUWER', but so would using ladders, and what other law covers riding a horse? I guess HSE is only trying to apply a 'common-sense' approach, but they evidently lack parctice, and we do no that WAHR do apply in circumstances like getting in and out of cranes etc; how would mounting a horse be different in principle from getting into a crane cab? (yes, I know one is much higher than the other, but surely the principle's the same). And people do get badly hurt falling off horses. Now bicycles, I could put forward an argument that says that somebody on a bicycle isn't actually at a height; their feet are off the ground, but they are actually lower down than a standing person, especially if they're on a recumbent. So, I can see a case for including horses; and camels (just spent four hours on one outside Luxor, and boy they are not a stable form of transport, I'll tell you), John